RealClearPolitics Week of August 9, 2021 Archives

RealClearPolitics Evening Edition

Monday, August 9

Democrats' Defund the Police Debacle

Charles Lipson, RealClearPolitics

Biden's Reconciliation Bill Would Be a Big Effing Deal

Andrew Prokop, Vox

Republicans' Pathetic Infrastructure Surrender

Philip Klein, National Review

Dems Are Freaking Out About the 2022 Midterms. Good!

Jason Linkins, TNR

Even Cuomo's Most Devoted Rats Are Jumping Ship

Piers Morgan, Daily Mail

Opening Schools Should Be Priority #1

Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg

Obama's 60th Birthday Party Peak Dem Covid Sanctimony

Gabe Kaminsky, Federalist

DeSantis, GOP Scapegoating Immigrants on Covid

Barry Saunders, Raleigh N&O

Where Are the Illegal Immigrants Going?

Newt Gingrich, Washington Times

DaBaby Apologized (2x) for His Homophobia. It's Not Enough

Treye Green, NBC

Kamala Harris Utterly Flubbing Her Job as Veep

Dan McLaughlin, New York Post

Tuesday, August 10

Cuomo Resigns as NY Governor After Decade-Long Run

Clukey & Kinery, Bloomberg

Why California's Gov. Newsom Is in Real Trouble

Tom Del Beccaro, FOX News

Trump's GOP Is a Giant Scam

Juan Williams, The Hill

I'm Glad Obama Had His Maskless Party

Dana Loesch, Substack

Now What? Texas Democrats Have a Hard Choice to Make

Chris Cillizza, CNN

Chicago Police Families & the Phony Mayor's Big Speech

John Kass, JohnKassNews

Marty Baron on Truth, Democracy & the Press in an Age of Distrust

Sean Illing, Vox

IG Probes Allegations of NSA Spying on Tucker Carlson

Glenn Greenwald, Substack

Radical Nation: Biden & Harris's Dangerous Plan for America

Sean Spicer, Breitbart

America's New Great-Power Strategy

Joseph Nye, Project Syndicate

China Owes the World $35 Trillion If Lab Leak Is True

Christian Whiton, 1945

Wednesday, August 11

Cuomo Abused His Power at Expense of the Vulnerable

Ashley McGuire, USAT

The Real Question Is Why Cuomo Took So Long to Fall

Zephyr Teachout, The Nation

Will Other Govs Be Held to Account for Covid Deaths?

Ari Hoffman, Post Millennial

How Will the Coronavirus Evolve?

Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker

California Liberals Flunking First Duty of Government

Michael Barone, DC Examiner

Is the Democrats' Infrastructure Gamble Actually Working?

Ignore Dem Disinformation: Big Corporations Do Pay Taxes

Ted Alexander, RCP

We Must End Qualified Immunity for Police

Barnett & Bonds, New Jersey Star-Ledger

Demonizing Police Risks Public Safety & Gets Cops Killed

Maurice Richards, The Hill

Collateral Damage From Cuomo's Fall: Media's Integrity

LZ Granderson, LA Times

Chris Cuomo Should Resign

Tim Graham, Townhall

The 100-Year Marathon: China's Plan to Replace America

George Spencer, ND Mag

Thursday, August 12

With Cuomo's Resignation, Dems Can Refocus '22 Messaging

Kevin Walling, The Hill

Confronting Critical Race Theory in Fairfax County, VA

Sarah Weaver, DC Examiner

What Happened to Biden's 'Summer of Freedom'?

Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker

Democrats Have Unrealistic Goals for Eliminating Covid

Jonathan Ellen, City Journal

Why You Should Care About Dems' New Budget--a Lot

Jason Sattler, USA Today

Republicans Wussed Out Hard

Christian Whiton, Substack

The Biden Administration's Dangerous Immigration Policy

Newt Gingrich, Newsweek

Did the War on Terror Create Trump?

Joshua Keating, Slate

The Death of the Global Cop

Angelo Codevilla, The American Mind

To Tackle China, the U.S. Should Invest More in Africa

Maria Chaplia, RealClearPolitics

Chicago's Mayor Lightfoot--Lost in Her 'Field of Dreams'

John Kass, JohnKassNews

Friday, August 13

It's Time to Move On From the Fantasy of Zero Covid

David Livermore, Spiked

How the Pandemic Now Ends

Ed Young, The Atlantic

Cuomo's Downfall Previews Trouble for Newsom, Whitmer

Oliver & Boyle, Breitbart

Dem Senate Majority Could Hinge on CA Newsom Recall

Jessica Schulberg, HuffPost

Forcing Kids to Wear Masks Is Cruel and Unnecessary

Tucker Carlson, FOX News

Don't Be a Schmuck. Put on a Mask

Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Atlantic

Science Journals Have Been Corrupted by China

Ian Birrell, UnHerd

U.S. Leaders Have Been Lying About Afghanistan for Years

Amber Smith, Federalist

Biden Deserves Blame for the Debacle in Afghanistan

Peter Bergen, CNN

Why Bush Bears Most Blame for Afghanistan Humiliation

Byron York, DC Examiner

Beware Central Bank Fairy Tales About Inflation

Chris Giles, Financial Times

Sunday, August 15

How Did Biden Get His Afghanistan Predictions So Wrong?

Mike Allen, Axios

Why America Was Destined to Fail in Afghanistan

Andrew Michta, 1945

The U.S. Can't Walk Away From Afghanistan

Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg

U.S. Is Done With 20 Years of Failed Interventionism

Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist

Next Year's Midterm Battles Already Underway

David Shribman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Biden Has Given You a Pay Cut--Get Ready for More

Alfredo Ortiz, FOX Business

Dems Can Win by Uniting Progressives and Moderates

Douglas Schoen, The Hill

Elder's Recall Campaign Going Strong for CA's Asian Vote

Roger Simon, Epoch Times

Durham's Report Could Take Powerful People by Surprise

Jonathan Turley, The Hill

Obama Poses a Question That We Still Cannot Answer

John Blake, CNN

What Children Should Be Learning

McClay & O'Toole, National Review